The Curriculum
Geriatric residents participate in supervised, collaborative, interdisciplinary clinical and didactic experiences which provide training in the:
- Development of diagnostic and assessment skills
- Application of biopsychosocial concepts
- Experience and knowledge of illness, prevention strategies and a wide range of treatment modalities including neuromodulation
- Treatment of a culturally diverse population of older adults with a wide range of psychopathology in a broad range of clinical settings
- Psychological and social aspects of gerontology, including normal aging and the pathology of primary psychiatric disturbances beginning in or continuing into older age
- Psychiatric impact of acute and chronic physical illnesses
- Recognition of and negotiation of legal and ethical issues
- Evidence-based clinical decision-making
- Educational leadership
The residency offers clinical rotations in the following settings:
- Inpatient geropsychiatry at the Stone Institute of Psychiatry
- Outpatient geriatric psychiatry specialty clinic
- diagnostic evaluations
- pharmacological management
- individual and family psychotherapy
- Long-term care at the Lieberman Geriatric Centre
- Consultation in the community via home visits through the Council for Jewish Elderly
- The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center funded by the National Institute on Aging, and the Illinois Department of Public Health
- The Division of Geriatric Medicine, recognized nationally, (U.S. News and World Report, July, 2009)
- Palliative care
- Consult liaison at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, ranked #1 Rehab Hospital in the U.S. (U.S. News and World Report July, 2009)
- Behavioral Neurology
- Neuropsychology
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation